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WWW.Stalin?

Updated Jan. 27, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Cold warriors hungering after some old-style propaganda can punch up "www.kcna.co.jp ," the new home page of North Korea's news agency. It seems the charm of technology is proving so strong that even senescent Communist strongholds feel the need to put in an appearance. Recently we perused a news item railing about South Korean workers' sufferings under their "puppet clique" regime, then scrolled through a report of a South Korean family that defected north because it could no longer stand life in "a corrupt Colonial society in which the independence of the nation is trampled down and fascism...